Your Inner Hedgehog - (Professor Dr Von Igelfeld) by Alexander McCall Smith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Illustrations copyright Ã2020 by Iain McIntosh"--Copyright page.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due--a quest that has a tendency to go hilariously astray.</b> <p/>This time Professor Dr Dr von Igelfeld will have to take on a dangerous newcomer--Deputy Librarian Dr Hilda Schreiber-Ziegler. Swept in on a wave of progressive enthusiasm, she seems determined to drag the department into the modern age. At first this is a minor nuisance, but when Dr Schreiber-Ziegler attempts to remove twenty-one of the twenty-two copies of Professor Dr Dr von Igelfeld's seminal work, the thousand-page <i>Portuguese Irregular Verbs</i> . . . Well, things have gone a bit too far. As a result, von Igelfeld mounts a campaign for the exalted position of director of the Institute against none other than the upstart Dr Schreiber-Ziegler herself. But the politicking will have to wait; von Igelfeld has been offered a visiting fellowship among the ivory towers of Oxford, where he will have to stave off an MI6 recruitment attempt and the effusive attention of a young American scholar. Still, von Igelfeld has always heeded the clarion call of duty, especially when it comes with a larger office.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Acclaim for the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series</b> <p/>"Delightfully silly.... [von Igelfeld] is a literary Mr. Magoo." --<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/>"A comedic jewel... [<i>At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances</i>] attains a level of sublime nonsense reminiscent of Woody Allen's <i>Bananas</i>." --<i>The New York Times <p/></i>"In the halls of academe, a setting fraught with ego-driven battles for power and prestige [McCall Smith] has rendered yet another one-of-a-kind character: the bumbling but brilliant Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld . . . . [a] deftly rendered trilogy [with] endearingly eccentric characters." <i>--Chicago Sun-Times</i> <p/>"Filled with comic characters, all academics of a particularly stripe. . . . McCall Smith has the same gift that John Mortimer has in making boring conversations hilarious--the atmosphere in the Institute of Romance Philology's coffee room is very like the one-upmanship and backbiting in Horace Rumpole's chambers. Academia can be a hoot, and this series proves it." --<i>Booklist <p/></i>"Professor von Igelfeld is a comic gem. . . . McCall Smith skewers the pomposity of academic pretension with an irresistible, deadpan insouciance." --<i>BlogCritics</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alexander McCall Smith</b> is the author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels and of a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been bestsellers throughout the world. He lives in Scotland.
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